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Queer Ecologies Open Access Learning Programme

16th March – 14th July 2024

ONLINE and at locations across the UK

After London / Wild Queer Land is an open access programme that invites creative collaboration and learning with writers, artists, ecologists, poets, herbalists & botanists whom are thinking and working around the field of queer nature and queer ecology.  

coordinated by Daniel Baker-Wells with Jasmine Isa Qureshi, Connor Butler, Roy Vickery (Plant Lore), LiLi K. Bright, Pierce Eldridge (Worms, Sissy Anarchy), Sheree Mack (Earth Sea Love, Black Nature in Residence), Tom Moulsdale, Scarlett Fay (the Strawberry Rat, Molly No-Mates), Hackney Herbal, and others tbc.  

all activities are designed to be as open and accessible as possible: inviting discussion & collaboration: JOIN US

 

a publication, co-edited with Pierce Eldridge will be collectively produced and deliciously printed and launched nationally: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES COMING SOON

 

queer-affirming & queer-led: LGBTQIA+ and allies welcome

PAY WHAT YOU CAN: suggested donation per ONLINE workshop £4-6 / 

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ONLINE DATES NOW BOOKING 

Queer nature & creative writing workshop 

SATURDAY 16TH MARCH 2024 @ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – LILI K. BRIGHT 

LiLi (they/them) is a published poet who leads nature walks and climate science training.  They are a member of the mental health collective Misery Party, a Climate Fresk facilitator, writer of ecopoetry, climate fiction & short stories, nature nerd, tree lover & amateur birder.

LiLi will lead a practical, accessible creative writing workshop, involving nature-inspired  activities and explorations of the work of queer nature poets and artists (also part of Wild Queers programme).

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An introduction to queering ecology: through indigenous teachings, queer theory and storytelling

SATURDAY 30TH MARCH 2024 @ 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM – JASMINE ISA QURESHI: 

Jasmine Isa Qureshi (they/she), is a journalist (BBC Wildlife, Gaytimes, Metro, etc.), writer and marine / queer – biologist and ecologist. As a trans, Pakistani, non-binary, and muslim woman, she has often found that her need to intertwine her identity in her work is required for authenticity and creativity to thrive. As such, she is also a Poet, an Ambassador for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, an advisor on the committee of RSPB England, and a presenter, speaker, workshop facilitator and wildlife TV Researcher.  She is also currently working on her first book!

WORKSHOP: Ecology and biology are often the basis for our understanding of the world, and allow us to traverse the natural world in many incredible and beautiful ways…but these ways are also full of toxic assumptions and preconceptions, that can lead us to harshly judge and impose upon the wildlife we so love, and even the people around us, and also seep into the ways we accept humanity and nature, and build society. Queering ecology is all about breaking down those foundational assumptions, and restructuring and re-understanding biology and ecology, using a mix of indigenous teachings, queer theory and storytelling, to allow us to open our minds and hearts to what nature really is all about. 

In this workshop, learn to ask questions in the right places, grow your understanding of alternative systems of learning about nature, and open your eyes to an entirely new way of seeing the world, through the tools and knowledge you will find you already have.

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An introduction to mosses & lichen and the queer worlds they create

SUNDAY 21ST APRIL 2024 @ 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM – CONNOR BUTLER

Connor Butler (he/him) is an experienced environmental educator.  He has dedicated over a decade to fostering positive connections between people and the natural world with an aim to help ordinary folk see “ordinary” wildlife from new perspectives, and encourage people to take time to appreciate the smallest details in nature and to show love for the often unloved species on our planet.  Connor has a particular interest in weird and unloved species, such as dung beetles, woodlice, toads, stinging nettles, and slugs.  He has delivered Queer Ecology walks for Chelsea Physic Garden, Garden Museum, The Royal Parks, The Linnean Society, and The Chesterfield Mayfair.

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Social anarchism & queer utopic ecologies 

THURSDAY 25TH APRIL 2024 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – PIERCE ELDRIDGE 

Pierce Eldridge is a writer, literary editor, founder of the radical trans anarchist zine SISSY ANARCHY, managing editor of Worms, and co-founder of Compost Library, working between London and so-called Australia. 

SISSY ANARCHY is an A4 zine and online newsletter that explores trans queer anarchism. We understand anarchism as an ideology, that is, a set of ideas, motivations, ethics, values, a structure or system of concepts that have a direct connection with action which influences political practices; against anti-trans, anti-queer, capitalist, colonial, racist, ableist, and discrimination struggles across the world

WORKSHOP: Inspired by the trans people, faggots, and utopic ecologies that feature within Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, and drawing from writers such as Lauren Berlant, Sarah Sculman, and more, Pierce Eldridge will facilitate a writing workshop that considers speaking, and evoking in our writing, a tranarchist language. 

Using writing exercises and tools, we will build an intimate connection to queering the way we speak, mutter, grasp, correspond, tell stories, create forms of resistance, and act up. Understanding language as a living thing, we burrow into ourselves, probing texts, to consider the interrelation of our words with direct action that seeks final outcomes; in relationship with comrades, other species, ecosystems, and the textures of being a ‘sissy’ in anarchism.

 

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queer-affirming & queer-led: LGBTQIA+ and allies welcome

PAY WHAT YOU CAN: suggested donation per ONLINE workshop £4-6 / 

 

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Part of After London / Wild Queer Land: After London is supported by Heritage Lottery Fund: an exploration of queer ecologies, natural heritage of wild places and queer plant lore in less well known wild places of London; & Wild Queer Land is supported by Arts Council England.  With thanks to the invaluable support of Barnsley Civic, yeovil octagon, yeovil diversity project, creative recovery, and many others. 

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